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Farm, left to right: Justin Heilenbach (owner), Matt Schoch, Tim Pote and Beth Peisner. Photo: Heather Zinger. Portland Farmers Market at PSU is known well beyond our fair city for its lovely location along the downtown Park Blocks and its huge range of purveyors selling everything from beautiful produce to work-of-art pastries, artisan breads and local brews. Less well-known are the close to 20 smaller farmers markets more...
Okay, so we haven't been experiencing the steamiest "Wet Hot American Summer" so far this year. Lately, the morning grey skies and chilly night gusts have it feeling more like October in July. But with warm afternoons and bright, extended evenings—plus a few sweaty heat waves (fingers crossed for at least a few more spikes in the mercury)—it is still decidedly summer in Oregon. And how do we take advantage more...
After a wet and chilly spring with difficult growing conditions and week after week of mostly rainy market days, the local farmers market season is finally in full swing, There’s no better time of the year to be a cook in Oregon and for food lovers, nothing beats a shopping trip to a good farmers market. Following the long-awaited arrival of the sun, the next biggest market news in Portland is the new Monday market at more...
PSU Farmers Market. Photo: Heather Zinger More and more Portlanders are planting a garden this year, large or small, new or well-established. But garden or no garden, anyone who enjoys putting together meals when produce is the most fresh and varied, will head to a local farmers market occasionally this summer for fruit and veggies and possibly other Oregon and Southwest Washington products to eat, drink and beautify their more...
Photo: Heather Zinger Portland may or may not be the DIY capital of the U.S., but the interest in do-it-yourself food crafting is definitely on the upswing here, in a state where school kids used to pick berries and beans during summer vacation and moms put up jar after jar of pickles, jam and canned fruit. Today the ranks of local DIYers are growing—replacing lawn with veggies gardens, raising and even more...
Want to picnic, potluck or cookout in a Portland park? Make sure your blowout isn't a bust with this simple guide. more...
Grocery store meat recalls grab front-page headlines. A virulent strain of E. coli sickens thousands of Americans annually, with ground beef being the biggest culprit. Movies like Food, Inc. and The Real Dirt on Farmer John expose more and more Americans to the unsustainability of Big Ag, inhumane treatment of animals, and the health risks to farmworkers and consumers of chemicals used to raise our food. Meanwhile Portland more...
Fifteen years ago, as large video stores swallowed up their smaller, local competitors, one could conduct a sort of litmus test to discover whether or not the new, voluminous mega video store you were then walking through would really offer the quality of choice its size seemed to imply. The rule? Blue Velvet. If you couldn't find it, that generally meant that there were plenty of other videos you wouldn't find, and that more...
I have a dear friend (who shall remain unnamed) who credits kombucha with curing her lifelong bout with flatulence. Knowing nearly nothing about the fermented elixir, but thankful for its effect on my friendship, I was intrigued when offered a sample at Whole Foods recently. Now, this wasn’t just any sample. It was a sample of what appears to be a new tea trend brewing in town: kombucha on tap. A Brief more...
Your guide to Portland’s best happy hour burgers Part 1: Southwest and Northwest Portland Part 2: Southeast and Northeast Portland Poke your head into one of Portland’s finest dining destinations or swankiest steak houses and you’re almost always guaranteed to see two kinds of people: a businessman in a $1000 suit and a blue collar worker wearing ripped jeans and a dusty trucker hat. It’s this more...